LA Angels Tuesday News Crash: Small Deals

The couple real life hitting instructors I know, they look at an MLB guy when he is having a problem and use A LOT of tech to figure out what has changed from when the hitter was doing well. Or what has changed as far as how pitchers are approaching him if his swing is the same.

A lot of “pitchers now throw XYZ to you more, and look how this part of your body handles it and the problem it is causing” type stuff. But yeah, they can literally tell how much “load” and torque etc a hitter is building up when his swing sets up and how it is messed with by various pitches, etc. It’s crazy.

Same with pitch recognition, swing plane, etc. They have all kinds of video and data overlays etc that show how said hitter can’t actually see XYZ pitch well enough to hit it till X point, and how fast he has to swing to get to it, and how he can’t do it so he needs to lay off that pitch. Or at what point his swing gets weak when he reaches for an outside pitch so he understands wen to not swing…

Then all they have to do is get the hitter to listen, force their body to do the thing to fix the issue, and stop trying to “talent” their way through everything.

But yeah, they don’t actually change a hitters swing most of the time.